Includes bibliographical references and index

Challenges to technology policy in a changing world economy / Lewis M. Branscomb and Richard Florida -- Technology policy and economic growth / Michael Borrus and Jay Stowsky -- Measurement issues / Adam B. Jaffe -- Social capital: a key enabler of innovation / Jane E. Fountain -- From science policy to research policy / Lewis M. Branscomb -- The Advanced Technology Program: opportunities for enhancement / Christopher T. Hill -- Dual-use and the Technology Reinvestment Project / Linda R. Cohen -- Rethinking the Small Business Innovation Research program / Scott J. Wallsten -- Technology transfer and the use of CRADAs at the National Institutes of Health / David H. Guston -- Manufacturing extension: performance, challenges, and policy issues / Philip Shapira -- Toward a new generation of environmental technology / George R. Heaton, Jr., and R. Darryl Banks -- Federal energy research and development for the challenges of the 21st century / John P. Holdren -- Beyond the National Information Infrastructure initiative / Brian Kahin -- University-industry relations: the next four years and beyond / Harvey Brooks and Lucien P. Randazzese -- Industry consortia / Daniel Roos, Frank Field, and James Neely -- State governments: partners in innovation / Christopher M. Coburn and Duncan M. Brown -- Managing technology policy at the White House / David M. Hart -- Towards a research and innovation policy / Lewis M. Branscomb and James H. Keller

Shortly after taking office in 1993, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore called for a shift in American technology policy toward an expansion of public investments in partnerships with private industry, backed up by scientific research in universities and national laboratories. The authors of this volume were invited by the Clinton administration to take a hard, nonpartisan look at how successful the new policies have been and to propose ways to make their programs more effective and more likely to attract bipartisan support. The first summary report of the team's recommendations, released in April 1997, was called the "hottest technology policy property on Capitol Hill."

This book, an expansion of that report, offers a new set of technology policy principles. These principles provide guidelines for stimulating technical innovation, shaping public-private partnerships, and establishing criteria for federal investments in research. The authors use the principles to evaluate many federal research programs and to make recommendations for change

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